Hunter knife throw (Destiny)

by stabbim , Des Moines, IA, USA, Wednesday, December 10, 2014, 16:14 (3876 days ago) @ stabbim

Also, I started a hunter a couple of weeks ago, and I REALLY hate the Gunslinger's throwing knife, coming from a Warlock.

To clarify, I LOVE it when it works. I have a few great clips of me taking down whole swarms of smaller enemies with it (with the instant reset perk), and I definitely was yelling gleefully when those happened. But the combination of the throwing knife and the standard melee is very unreliable. I like to come around a corner fast and melee immediately to hit an enemy who's hiding there, and often in that situation where my warlock definitely would have connected, the hunter throws a knife instead because either I wasn't lined up JUST right, or I did it too fast or something. So now, not only did I not hit the enemy (who is now attacking me), but I've just lost the cooldown on the throwing knife as well. Argh.

Would it have been better to have the throwing knife be one of the grenade options? That mix-up scenario wouldn't happen if they were on different buttons. Maybe replace the swarm grenade? I like swarm's mechanism in theory, but the enemies have to be SO CLOSE for it to track that I feel like I'm more likely to hit them using the standard grenade.